Philip Swan

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Witchery
My work uses a language of form stemming from spiritualist folk art and modernist abstraction to explore our narratives of reproduction.
Biomorphic geometric shapes act as abstract metaphors for the mechanistic processes that bring life to fruition, interacting with others in a way that allows for multiple readings in the viewer’s imagination while also creating a sense of movement.
I associate bright and simple geometric shapes with a childhood world of innocence, but by making them slightly biomorphic, by making them spray or lactate, by putting them into configurations that suggest spores or cells, I question the often conflicting agendas of biology and society that gives rise to childhood in the first place.
I like the handmade aspect of watercolor and feel the medium's unavoidable sense of fragility and exposure is in keeping with art as cottage industry. My work is purposely modest and human in scale, meant for the intimacy of personal domestic spaces.
Philip Swan
New York, NY
New York
North America

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